Chrome Data VIN Decoder – Feature

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The Chrome Data VIN Decoder feature is used to communicate with the 3rd party Chrome Data service for real-time VIN look-ups in your Ivinex system.

Note: Minimum Required Ivinex Version: 4.0

Note: The Chrome Data VIN Decoder feature is not turned on by default. If you feel you could benefit from the chrome data VIN decoder feature, please contact us, and we will enable it for your Ivinex site.

Feature Setup

Once the feature has been activated you need to follow these initial steps:

Open Ivinex Admin

Click System Preferences

Click Feature Manager

Click Settings for the Chrome Data VIN Decoder Feature

Put in your Account Number and Account Secret (which you will get from the vendor)

Save your settings

Fig. 1 – Initial Setup

Module Setup

After the initial setup, please follow these additional steps

Create a module to hold your inventory

Note: If you have an Inventory/Vehicle module already created in your Ivinex system, then you can skip this step. It is possible to use ANY module with this feature, the name of the module does not matter.

In your Inventory/Vehicle module, you need to create the fields where you will store the data returned from the service. The following data is returned from ChromeData…

Year

Make

Model

Style Name

Trim

Body Type

Engine Type

Fuel Type

Driving Wheels

VIN: You must also create a field to store the VIN number as this is what the feature will use to lookup data with.

At this point you get to choose how this feature will be triggered. It is recommended to use one of the following…

When a record is updated (use a filter to only lookup vehicles that have not already been looked up before).

When a button is pressed

If you choose to use this trigger, you will need to create a button (Field Type) in the Inventory/Vehicle module as well.

Once you have all the fields created in your module, you need to create the workflow that will lookup your vehicle information and store it in your Inventory/Vehicle record.